Lexical-semantic priming effects during infancy. by Arias-Trejo, N, Plunkett, K

“…Experiment 1 demonstrated a lexical-semantic priming effect for 21-month olds but not for 18-month olds: unrelated prime words interfered with linguistic target identification for 21-month olds. …”

A neural network model of lexical-semantic competition during spoken word recognition by Duta, M, Plunkett, K

“…We present a neural network model that processes dynamic unfolding phonological representations of words and maps them to static internal lexical, semantic, and visual representations. The model, trained on representations derived from real corpora, simulates this early phonological over semantic/visual preference. …”

What's in a link: associative and taxonomic priming effects in the infant lexicon. by Arias-Trejo, N, Plunkett, K

“…Infants develop a lexical-semantic system of associatively and semantically related words by the end of the second year of life. …”

Tracking the associative boost in infancy by Plunkett, K, Delle Luche, C, Hills, T, Floccia, C

“…Our results demonstrate that 18-month-old infants are able to construct a lexical-semantic network based on associative and taxonomic relations between words in the network, and that lexical-semantic links are more robust when they are both associative and taxonomic in character. …”

The vocabulary spurt predicts the emergence of backward semantic inhibition in 18‐month‐old toddlers by Chow, ZL, Davies, AM, Fuentes, LJ, Plunkett, K

“…Our findings highlight the role of vocabulary growth in the development of inhibitory processes in the emerging lexical‐semantic system.…”

Backward semantic inhibition in toddlers by Chow, J, Aimola Davies, A, Fuentes, L, Plunkett, K

“…Theoretical implications of the underlying mechanism of backward semantic inhibition and the development of lexical-semantic inhibition in early childhood are discussed.…”

Prime saliency in semantic priming with 18-month-olds by Gillen, N, Angulo-Chavira, AQ, Plunkett, K

“…The study also demonstrated the utility of the inter-modal priming task in studying lexical-semantic structure in younger infants with its diverse measures of infant behaviour.…”

Language-mediated visual attention in toddlers by Chow, J

“…While Part I demonstrates how relatively long-term lexical-semantic knowledge mediates visual attention, Part II demonstrates how recently encountered events are encoded into episodic representations, retrieved and in turn, influence mediated visual attention.…”